geniculatedadj.
/dʒᵻˈnɪkjᵿˌleɪtᵻd/, U.S. /dʒəˈnɪkjəˌleɪdᵻd/ Chiefly Botany and Zoology.
= geniculate adj. 1.
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1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Dispensatory i. 298 It [sc. Angelica] is more than two cubits high, with a geniculated [L. geniculato], skrewed, palid, cave and ferulaceous caul.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 31 The Water-Spider. She hath two hairy geniculated horns, knotted or joynted at several divisions like Knot-grass.
1728 J. Woodward Catal. Foreign Fossils ii. 1 in Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils A Piece of some geniculated Plant seeming to be part of a Sugar-Cane.
1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 221 Geniculated..when it is composed of two prisms, which are united at one end, and form a kind of knee.
1882 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 16 238 The other [spine] rather longer but much less robust..and rather geniculated sideways.
1916 H. S. Williams Fauna Chapman Sandstone Maine 33 These undulations cease where the shell becomes bent and are absent on the geniculated portion.
2006 Taxon 55 770/2 Branches short to long, straight, occasionally geniculated, thick-walled but not solid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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